Block Play is Important Work

While he is busy creating ‘The Wizardly World of Wizaldo the Wizard’ he is also learning maths skills such as number, shape, weight, volume, grouping and sorting.

He’s experimenting with concepts like balance and gravity. He’s learning and using new language.

He’s practising spatial awareness skills, eye hand co-ordination and refining both small and large muscle movements.

His imagination is blossoming. He’s making a representation of his ideas. He’s planning, creating and problem solving.

And when ‘Godzilla’ is released he is also learning about cause and effect and to cope with set backs.

So you see… block play is very important work.

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Wooden Blocks are very popular & an integral part of our Playcentre. Our kids love to build the most amazing creations. Some are teeny tiny & others are for the kids to be inside.. We like to play with blocks at home too.

It’s great to use the wooden blocks too as they have a nice warmth to them.

They are a combination of bought and made blocks. The castle blocks I made when I was teaching preschool from off cuts from a building site. They are just left over pine 2×4’s mostly. The little wooden blocks were a gift and the yellow ‘flamed’ shaped arch in these pictures is part of a set of ‘fire’ arches that fit inside each other which we got from entrophy.com.au
Hope that helps!

Love it Kate :) And I think I just decided what I would buy with my first pay cheque…Jack will LOVE those fire arches

katepicklesays

We got the set of fire arches as well as a rainbow set and a water set from entropy about 5 years ago and everyone has played with them and loved them. They are one of the best toy’s we’ve ever bought and really not that expensive… though I dream of getting some of the really big sets!

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